GLBenchmark 2.0 is the best example of an even remotely current 3D game running on this class of hardware–even then this is a bit of a stretch. GLBenchmark 2.0 is still our current go-to test as it is our best best for guaging real world performance, even across different mobile OSes. Keep in mind that with GLBenchmark 2.0 we still cannot run at any resolution than native – in this case 800x480 (WVGA) – and the same applies for other devices in the suite, they're all at respective native resolutions. GLBenchmark 3.0 will fix this somewhat with the ability to render into an off-screen buffer of arbitrary size.

We never formally reviewed the T-Mobile MyTouch 4G, but have one nonetheless and have included it in our benchmark numbers a few times. Likewise, I purchased an HTC Inspire 4G for personal use which we'll review soon. The importance of these two devices is that they represent the current generation of single-core Snapdragon SoCs with Adreno 205 graphics. Comparatively, the 1.5 GHz MSM8660 with Adreno 220 is 2.2x faster than the 1 GHz MSM8655 with Adreno 205.

Interestingly enough our run through Egypt came slightly higher with Vsync on than it did off - we're just showing the margin of error here.

Pro is a less challenging test than Egypt, as it's simply the GLBenchmark 1.x main suite with OpenGL ES 2.0 features and shaders. Already we're at the framerate cap here on both MSM8660 and likely OMAP 4430. Pro likewise demonstrates huge gains from Adreno 205 to Adreno 220 - in this case 3.7x.

It's not really ironic that the prototype is running a newer version of android than most retail phones are. That's kind of the idea of a prototype. Companies have no incentive to update android on their phones after they're released, so that shouldn't come as a shock at all.Reply

I believe the MDP comes with a plethora of profilers and hardware plugs available to software. One of these measure aggregate power/current and graphs it. It'd be interesting to see how much power the SoC is eating during CPU and/or GPU intensive tests.

Since other devices don't have these profilers, there wouldn't be much in the way of comparing but having absolute numbers would be interesting in and of itself.Reply

Performance is getting pretty impressive. I still don't see using my phone as a true mobile gaming platform in the near future; the battery life just doesn't cut it when I need the phone for actual phone uses. I wonder if they'll ever drop down smartphone battery drain enough (or develop insanely better batteries) to allow for this kind of usage for extended periods of time.Reply